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Exploitative Competition Between Invasive Herbivores Benefits A Native Host Plant, Joseph Elkinton, E. L. Preisser
Exploitative Competition Between Invasive Herbivores Benefits A Native Host Plant, Joseph Elkinton, E. L. Preisser
Joseph Elkinton
Although biological invasions are of considerable concern to ecologists, relatively little attention has been paid to the potential for and consequences of indirect interactions between invasive species. Such interactions are generally thought to enhance invasives' spread and impact (i.e., the “invasional meltdown” hypothesis); however, exotic species might also act indirectly to slow the spread or blunt the impact of other invasives. On the east coast of the United States, the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae, HWA) and elongate hemlock scale (Fiorinia externa, EHS) both feed on eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Of the two insects, HWA is considered far more …